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THE TRADING CHRONICLES 2010

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THE TRADING CHRONICLES 2010 by The Oracle

THE INHUMAN FACE OF TRADE WEEK SATURDAY

We hear it said often these days that our game is a business and no longer just a sport: that the participants are all professionals from the top echelons of administration and control, to the players and right down to the legendary bootstudders (if they even exist any more).

Fortunately, in spite of its increasingly commercial nature, we still witness many events that transcend the era of professionalism and return us to the romantic age when heroism, courage and self-sacrifice were the order of the day. The collective performances of those who took part in this year's grand finals was but one example.

Another was the performance in mid season of a virtual unknown from one of the competition's lowly clubs.

Andrew Collins became the toast of the Richmond Football Club when he bounced back from a heavy collision to become an unlikely hero in his team's come from behind victory over the Sydney Swans in early July. The then 21 year old from country Victoria was playing only his 19th game in his fourth season when he was knocked out in a clash of heads with Sydney's Lewis Roberts-Thomson.

Later in the game, the Tigers trailled by 33 points at the 21-minute mark of the third quarter but came back to record a remarkable victory thanks in part to the efforts of Collins who lifted himself off the canvas to boot three vital goals in the second half including two match winners in the final term of the Round 14 game at the MCG.

The football world was in a spin about the youngster's gutsy performance that was the highlight of an accurate Richmond's narrow four point win - his team's fourth for the season after it lost the first nine games. The Tigers, who had been written off early in the season by bookmakers who paid out bets on them to be the wooden spooners, were off the bottom of the ladder and becoming winners again under first year coach Damien Hardwick.

Fast forward three months and Collins is now a Carlton player following a straight swap with Shaun Grigg (who wanted to leave the Blues) in the only trade deal finalised on the Saturday of trade week. The romance is over and everyone's back to being cold, hard and professional.

Oh well ...

Completed Player Movements and Dealings on Day Five:

■ Gold Coast receives Gary Ablett (Geelong), Nathan Bock (Adelaide), Campbell Brown (Hawthorn), Jarrod Harbrow (Western Bulldogs), Nathan Krakouer (Port Adelaide), Michael Rischitelli (Brisbane) as uncontracted player selections

■Western Bulldogs receive Mitch Wallis in return for its first-round draft selection (No. 20) under the father son rule

■Western Bulldogs receive Tom Liberatore in return for its second-round draft selection (No. 40) under the father son rule

■West Coast Eagles receive Jacob Brennan in return for its final-round draft selection (TBA) under the father son rule

■Western Bulldogs receive Patrick Veszpremi and fourth-round draft selection (No. 73)

Sydney Swans receive Andrejs Everitt

■Adelaide receives Richard Tambling

Richmond receives Adelaide's end-of-first round compensation for losing Nathan Bock and a third-round draft selection (No. 50)

■ Gold Coast receives Josh Fraser (Collingwood) as an uncontracted player selection

■ Fremantle receives Peter Faulks (uncontracted Gold Coast draftee from Williamstown VFL) and fourth-round draft selection (No. 61)

Gold Coast receives third-round draft selection (No. 65)

■ Collingwood receives Andrew Krakouer (uncontracted Gold Coast draftee from Swan Districts WAFL), Jonathon Ceglar (uncontracted Gold Coast draftee from Murray Bushrangers WAFL), third-round draft selection (No. 55), fifth-round draft selection (No. 78) and sixth-round draft selection (No. 95)

Gold Coast receives first-round selection (No. 25)

■ Gold Coast receives Jared Brennan and first-round selection (No.10)

Brisbane Lions receive first-round selection (No. 5)

■ Western Bulldogs receive Nathan Djerrkura

Geelong receives a third-round draft selection (No. 57)

■ Hawthorn receives David Hale and third-round draft selection (No. 52)

North Melbourne receives Hawthorn's end-of-first round compensation for losing Campbell Brown and a fourth-round draft selection (No. 71)

■ Brisbane Lions receive Rohan Bewick (West Perth, WAFL), first-round draft selections (Nos. 5 and 25) and second-round draft selection (No. 27)

Gold Coast receives the end of first-round Gold Coast draft compensation selection Brisbane Lions received for losing Jared Brennan, first-round draft selection (No. 10) and third-round draft selection (No. 48)

■ North Melbourne receives Ben McKinley

West Coast Eagles receive fifth-round draft selection (No. 86)

■ Carlton receives Andrew Collins

Richmond receives Shaun Grigg

NAB AFL Draft selection numbers are indicative only. Gold Coast draft compensation selections do not yet have a number assigned to them. The above list shows only where selections may be placed if no compensation selections are activated.

No trades are official until paperwork has been accepted by the AFL and formally recognised after 2.00pm on Monday, October 11.

 

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